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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 07, 2022
Applicant:

Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);

Inventors:

Richard Donald Maes, Ii, Liberty Lake, WA (US);

Robert Vernon Dusenberry, Newman Lake, WA (US);

Assignee:

ITRON, INC., Liberty Lake, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01);
Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for operating an electronic device. The technique includes an electronic device determining one or more signal characteristics of a link between the electronic device and a base station, estimating a coupling loss for the link based on the one or more signal characteristics, determining whether the coupling loss exceeds a maximum coupling loss (MCL) for the link; and in response to determining that the coupling loss exceeds the MCL, delaying transmission of one or more messages from the electronic device over the link to the base station.


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